{"id":170820,"date":"2025-03-06T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T10:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=170820"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T10:05:58","slug":"ajay-bhadoo-appointed-ceo-of-government-e-marketplace-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ajay-bhadoo-appointed-ceo-of-government-e-marketplace-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Bhadoo Appointed CEO of Government e Marketplace (GeM)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Government of India has appointed Ajay Bhadoo, who is currently the Additional Secretary in the Department of Commerce, as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Government e Marketplace (GeM), effective\u00a0March 3, 2025. He will take on this new role while continuing his current duties. This appointment comes as GeM evolves into a next-generation digital marketplace, with support from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Bhadoo, an IAS officer from the 1999 batch of the Gujarat cadre, has a rich background in governance, urban infrastructure development, and policy implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Appointment and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ajay Bhadoo appointed as CEO of GeM, effective March 3, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Continues as Additional Secretary in the Department of Commerce.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professional Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1999-batch IAS officer from Gujarat cadre.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over two decades of experience in policy formulation and implementation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Served as Deputy Election Commissioner at the Election Commission of India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Former Joint Secretary to ex-President Ram Nath Kovind.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CEO of Gujarat Maritime Board and Commissioner of Rajkot &amp; Vadodara Municipal Corporations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of India has appointed Ajay Bhadoo, who is currently the Additional Secretary in the Department of Commerce, as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Government e Marketplace (GeM), effective\u00a0March 3, 2025. He will take on this new role while continuing his current duties. This appointment comes as GeM evolves into a next-generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":170821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5364],"tags":[4933],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-170820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2025","tag-appointments-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170822,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170820\/revisions\/170822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170820"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=170820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}